The Trans-Pacific Partnership: An Expansion of Whose Agenda?

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As this policy brief explains, the TPP agreement seeks to advance business standards in the Pacific region such as to contribute to continued US hegemony. One part of the motivations of late aspiring TPP members is to attain some degree of benefit for certain business interests within this “Asia Pivot” framework, another significant part of these motivations has to do with fear of consequences arising from non-participation, and yet another is tied to military strategies that stand to benefit from increased coordination among members that the TPP would permit.